RE: Ambient Walkman: Odd take on a potentially physicalyl looped instrument?

["Michael Peters" <mp@mpeters.de>]

> This guy at MIT has developed a walkman with binaural 
> microphones attached to it that uses a chip which makes the 
> ambient sound vocode synthetic sounds so that everything you 
> listen to creates music as you walk around.


interesting idea ... but ... I find myself more and more simply listening 
to
what is there ... that is, instead of listening to music when I'm walking
around, I find it more and more interesting to just listening to whatever
sound is there, maybe in the Cage sense that everything is music. 

I bet that using a chip to make everything sound synthetic would quickly
sound boring. Listening to the real world won't ever get boring as long as
you're interested in the real world :-)


-Michael www.michaelpeters.de